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Dixon, Franklin W.

Summary: While participating in a Revolutionary War reenactment, Frank and Joe learn that there has been a real casualty and set out to investigate the incident.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIX

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIX

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J HBA 6

Sands, Kevin

Summary: When Christopher Rowe's code-breaking uncovers the true target of an assassination attempt, he and his friends are ordered to Paris to investigate a centuries-old curse on the French throne.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAN

Lawhon, Ariel

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: In this "historical suspense, Ariel Lawhon unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's 50-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian Grand Duchess, a beloved daughter and revered icon, or is she an imposter, the thief of another woman's legacy?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Peters, Elizabeth

Summary: At last the Great War is over. Amelia, her distinguished Egyptologist husband Emerson and their extended family are preparing for another season of excavation in Egypt. To everyone's great joy their son Ramses and his wife Nefret have become parents. Amelia, enjoying her role of fond (yet firm) grandmother, hopes that for once, this will be a quiet year with Ramses no longer undertaking...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PET

Cambridge, Colleen

Summary: The housekeeper for archaeologist Max Mallowan and his famous wife, Agatha Christie, former Army nurse Phyllida Bright is faced with murder and mayhem during a weekend party and assembles the household staff to find the killer among the Mallowan's guests. Devon. Mallowan Hall combines the best of English tradition with the modern conveniences of 1930. The manor is home to archaeologist Max...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021

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Winspear, Jacqueline

Summary: Late September, 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Spitfire to Biggin Hill Aerodrome when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft. When she returns to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, tied up and gagged. Jo hurries away, but can't shake the image of the serviceman from her mind. Several days later, when Jo recounts the story to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WIN

Choo, Yangsze

Summary: Manchuria, 1908. A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes involved, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for sniffing out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Barron, Stephanie

Summary: "May 1816: Jane Austen is feeling unwell, with an uneasy stomach, constant fatigue, rashes, fevers and aches. She attributes her poor condition to the stress of family burdens, which even the drafting of her latest manuscript-about a baronet's daughter nursing a broken heart for a daring naval captain-cannot alleviate. Her apothecary recommends a trial of the curative waters at Cheltenham Spa,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BAR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

Graves, Stephanie

Summary: Weaving wartime intrigue, rural village life, and little-known historical facts about the role of carrier pigeons in WWII, Stephanie Graves continues the adventures of British pigeoneer Olive Bright, but as bitter cold weather forces her racing birds indoors in November 1941, Olive is assigned to a new role in the war effort - escorting none other than Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming on his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Todd, Charles

Summary: "Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case yet: a murder with no body, and a killer who can only be a ghost"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TOD

Kelly, Julia

Summary: "1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as "The Parisian Orphan" as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father's old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cabinet war rooms. However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KEL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M KEL

Bohjalian, Chris

Summary: Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOH

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOH

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOH

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BOH

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOH

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Bohjalian 2021

Pryor, Mark

Summary: "Mark Pryor's Die Around Sundown is the first entry in an exciting mystery series set in Paris during World War II, where a detective is forced to solve a murder while protecting his own secrets. Summer 1940: In German-occupied Paris, Inspector Henri Lefort has been given just five days to solve the murder of a German major that took place in the Louvre Musuem. Blocked from the crime scene but...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRY

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRY

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PRY

Rader-Day, Lori

Summary: "Bridey Kelly has come to Greenway House--the beloved holiday home of Agatha Christie--in disgrace. A terrible mistake at St. Prisca's Hospital in London has led to her dismissal as a nurse trainee, and her only chance for redemption is a position in the countryside caring for children evacuated to safety from the Blitz. Greenway is a beautiful home full of riddles: wondrous curios not to be...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAD

Freeman, Dianne

Summary: Wealthy young widow Frances Wynn, the American-born Countess of Harleigh, moves from the English countryside to Victorian London, where accusations that implicate her in her late husband's death cause her to begin her own investigation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Freeman 2018

Todd, Charles

Summary: On the north coast of Cornwall, an apparent act of mercy is repaid by an arrest for murder. Four young women have been accused of the crime. A shocked father calls in a favor at the Home Office. Scotland Yard is asked to review the case. However, Inspector Ian Rutledge is not the first Inspector to reach the village. Following in the shoes of a dead man, he is told the case is all but closed....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TOD

Christie, Agatha

Summary: Everyone blamed Emily Arundell's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously, he didn't receive the letter until June 28th by which time Emily was already dead.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2011

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Penner, Sarah

Summary: Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PEN

Peters, Elizabeth

Summary: The Emersons learn of a mysterious death that has been attributed to a curse, a situation that enables Amelia Peabody and her family to enter the banned Valley of the Kings in order to return a stolen statue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PET

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PET

Setterfield, Diane

Summary: When the seemingly dead body of a child reanimates hours after arriving at an ancient inn on the Thames, three families try to claim her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SET

Scottoline, Lisa

Summary: Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better future, Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante, Franco makes a decision that will change his life--and even the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCO

Christie, Agatha

Summary: Detective Hercule Poirot is on a journey to Egypt, where the tranquility of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that a stylish young woman has been shot.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHR

Andrews, Donna

Summary: Meg Langslow's in for a busy summer. Her husband is directing a production of Macbeth, and most of the cast and crew are occupying spare bedrooms in their house. She also has to keep an eye on Camp Birnam, where a group of medieval reenactors are commemorating the real-life Macbeth by setting up what they fondly believe is an authentic medieval Scottish military camp. And then there's Damien...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AND

Nielsen, Jennifer A.

Summary: Twelve-year-old Hazel Rothbury stows away aboard the Titanic and, with the help of a porter named Charlie and a first-class passenger named Sylvia, she sets out to explore the great ship, uncovering a haunting mystery--until the ship hits an iceberg and she must fight to save herself and her friends.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NIE

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NIE

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